Smoking-pipe attachment.



No. 630,074. Patented Aug. I, I899. H. A. ROHM.

SMOKING PIPE ATTACHMENT.

(Application filed Mar. 1, 1899.)

No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. ROHM, OF SAYVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J.STENGER, OF SAME PLACE.

SMOKING-PIPE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,074, dated August1, 1899.

Apnlication filed March 1, 1899. $erial1io. 707,249. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY A. RoHM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sayville, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Smoking-Pipe Attachment, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to tobacco-pipes and attachments therefor; andthe object of the invention is to provide a simple article of thecharacter specified consisting of a pipe of suitable construction and acleaner therefor, which latter remains within the pipe while the latteris being smoked, and the cleaner is of such a construction that when itis employed as such it serves to remove nicotine, dirt, &c. that collectinside the stem at any place in the length thereof, and the constructionof the cleaner is such thatit does not interfere with the free passageof smoke through the stem.

The article as a whole consists of a pipe the stem of which has achamber of greater diameter than the bore of said stem, and the latterconsists of two detachably-united sections, the ends of which areadjacent and form two walls of said chamber, and an attachment of lessdiameter the major part of its length and said bore and having cleaningdevices at its ends disposed, respectively, in the two sections of thestem and an intermediate portion located in said chamber and adapted toengage the walls of the latter, thereby to limit or prevent longitudinalmovement of the attachment. hen the two sections of the stem aredetached, the end portions of the attachment therein will servesuccessively to clean the two sections of the stem upon the insidethereof, whereby the stem can be kept clear of all obstructions and puresmokes assured.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combinationof elements and in the construction and arrangement of parts, which willbe hereinafter fully dc scribed and claimed.

To enable others to understand the invention,the preferred embodimentthereof is ill ustrated in the accompanying drawings, formin g a part ofthis specification, and in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectionthrough a pipe equipped with a cleaning attachment constructed inaccordance with the invention.

. though of course it may be formed of other metal. The stem 2 of thepipe consists of two sections a and b, the first mentioned of which isinternally threaded, as at 3, to receive the externally-threaded portion4 of the other section, the latter having an annular shoulder 5, adaptedto fit against the end of the section a when the two are in assembledrelation, as represented in Fig. 1, The stem 2 has a chamber 6 thereinlocated near the junction of the two sections thereof and the diameterof which exceeds the diameter of the bore or channel in said stem, andthe adjacent end portions of the two pipe-stem sections constitute twoof the walls of this chamber.

The cleaning attachment B, as hereiubefore set forth, is preferably ofwire and is of a shape to agree substantially with that of thepipe-stem, the latter being illustrated (see Fig. 1) as curved, althoughit is obvious that said stem can be straight.

The attachment B, as hereinbefore set forth, is preferably made of wire,and the diameter thereof is materially less than the bore of the stem,so as not to interfere with the passage of smoke therethrough, and isprovided at its ends or terminates in the small coils 7 and 8, located,respectively, near the junction of the bowl and the stem and at theouter end of said stem, said coils being contigUOilS tO the wall of thebore and being adapted to clean said wall by the movement thereoflongitudinally therealong. The attachment B is provided at about itsmiddle with the wide coil 9, disposed within the chamber 6 and adaptedto engage the walls thereof when the stem-section?) is fitted within itscompanion a, as represented in Fig. 1, thereby preventing longitudinalor endwise movement of said attachment in the stem. In cleaning the pipethe stem -section Z) is unscrewed and removed, which action sometimescarries the attachment therewith, so that the coil 7 will be drawnthrough the section a of the stem for the purpose of cleaning the insideof the latter, and occasionally said attachment will remain in thesection a of the stem when the section b is removed, whereby the coil 8will be caused to clean the inside of said section b as it is detached.

The attachment is light and serviceable and can be constructed at alowcost and can be applied to pipes having straight or curved stems as apermanent part thereof and is adapted, as hereinbefore set forth, tothoroughly remove all nicotine and dirt from the inside'of the stem,thereby insuring a clean a scope of the appended claims may be resortedto without departing fromthe spirit or sacrificing any of the advantagesof this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. Atobacco-pipe the stem of which has a chamber of greater diameter thanthe bore of said stem and said stem consisting of two sections'the endsof which form two of the walls of the chamber, and an attachment of lessdiameter'the major part of its length than said bore, and havingcleaning devices at its ends disposed respectively in said sections ofthe stem, and anintermediate larger portion located in said chamber,substantially as de scribed.

mediate and larger coil locatedin said cham- 1 ber, substantially asdescribed.

3. An attachment for smoking-pipes, o f

wire having end coils and having an intermediate coil of greaterdiameter than said end coils, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a tobacco-pipe having a sectional stem, the boreof one of the sections being enlarged at one end and" partiallyinternally-threaded, and the adjacent section being provided with anexternally-threaded end adapted tobe fitted into the threaded enlargedportion of the bore of the former section, of a cleaning attachmentnormally carried within the boreof the stem and provided with anintermediate enlargementengaging against the adjacent end walls of thestem-sections, whereby accidental 1ongitudinal displacement of thecleaning device is prevented, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own Ihave hereto afiiXedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. ROlIM.

